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Characteristics of Minerals
3 Types of Rock
Blue Planet Notes
A Million and One Uses for Minerals
Characteristics of Rocks
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A piece of matter found in nature that is not alive.
What is a mineral?
100
Rocks are grouped into three main types.
What is igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
100
This place is one of the seven natural wonders of the world.
What is the Grand Canyon?
100
Diamonds, rubies, sapphires, or emeralds.
Gemstones
100
It is liquid rock
What is magma or lava?
200
These people are able to tell all the minerals in the world apart.
Who are geologists?
200
It means "fire-made"
What is igneous rock?
200
This mineral is gold in color but leaves a black streak. It is often mistaken for real gold and is called "fool's gold".
What is Pyrite?
200
This mineral can be found in your pencil.
What is graphite?
200
A solid object made up of one or more minerals.
What is a rock?
300
This scale is used to measure how hard or soft a mineral is.
What is the Mohs Hardness Scale?
300
This rock forms more by a compacted and cemented process.
What is sedimentary rock?
300
These scientists study fossils.
Who are paleontologist?
300
This mineral is found in your toothpaste and helps keep your teeth safe from cavities.
What is fluorite?
300
A slow never ending process in which rocks continue to change into other types of rocks.
What is the rock cycle?
400
These are the four ways in which scientists can identify minerals.
What is color, streak, luster, and hardness?
400
This rock means "changed in form" and forms below the surface when extreme heat and pressure change the rocks into other types of rocks.
What is metamorphic rocks?
400
This crown is a part of the Jewel Collection in the United Kingdom and has over 3000 precious stones or minerals in it.
What is the Imperial State Crown?
400
This is a mineral you eat.
What is salt or sodium chloride?
400
Metamorphism does this
What is change a rock
500
This is the hardest mineral on the Mohs Hardness Scale.
What is diamond?
500
Granite is an example of this type for rock.
What is intrusive igneous rock?
500
Silicon and oxygen.
What is necessary in a silicate rock?
500
Special effects of minerals
What is magnetism or florescence
500
A way to turn mining land back into its original state
What is reclamation